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As someone who works as a sysadmin/systems engineer in a Windows environment, I find your analogy is a bit extreme. Not denying the issue, it's a constant frustration and problem. It's just that I find you can get a lot farther than most people think.
So less "hood's welded shut" and more "Why the fuck are the headlights a single unit? I just need to fix the high beams! Why is the transmission welded shut? Who in the fuck wired the radio and power steering together? And why in the hell is none of this documented anywhere?" Maybe that's worse, tbh. You can get very deep, but most of it is horrors.
Guess it's a matter of degree, that was the sort of stuff I was alluding to in the first part, that you have all this convoluted instrumentation that you can dig into, and as you say perhaps even more maddening because at some times it's needlessly over complicating something simple, and then at just the wrong time it tries to simplify something and ends up sealing off just the flexibility you might need.
Yes indeed! There are a lot of tricks old Windows admins still hold onto to get stuff done and sometimes it's so damn frustrating (like resorting to BITS to move files at times).